The debate started at 9 P.M., and in the opening minutes Kaine gave a nod to the local history, saying that Clinton would seek to "build a community of respect, just like Barbara Johns tried to do sixty-five yeago ago," but the moment was lost in an error of style that came to define the evening.
Presidential spokesman Eduardo Sánchez moved quickly to dismiss the plagiarism allegation and question whether 'errors of style' from a generation ago should hold any interest for the public today.
Fully three-quarters of those polled this month said that they did not want Mr Sarkozy to be re-elected president next year.The politician who ran up the steps of the Elysée Palace in 2007 in jogging shorts, promising to modernise France, has become a damaged brand, weakened by his own errors of judgment and style, as well as those of so many of his ministers.
A spokesman for Peña Nieto responded on Sunday that the president had completed all requirements for his law degree and downplayed the relevance of "style errors" in academic work done 25 years earlier.
The Q Brothers, hip-hop artists who were also behind "The Bomb-itty of Errors" ("The Comedy of Errors," rap-style), are presenting what they call their newest "ad-rap-tation" of a classical comedy.
(Warner Books. $30) Correction: November 17 , 2002 Sunday Because of an editing error, a report in the Books of Style column last Sunday about "Dress Smart Women" misidentified its author.
Watson was not perfect, however, and made some baffling errors such as coming up with "Dorothy Parker" instead of "The Elements of Style" and repeating other contestants' mistakes.
Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about a 50th-anniversary edition of the book The Elements of Style misspelled part of the publisher's name.
In spite of Bradley's laconic style, however, the exegetical errors of his critics are hard to justify.
